TDK shooting in Aurora

[DU Ute]

Practically everyone in Switzerland has a gun, they have very few restrictions on buying guns and has one of the highest militia gun ownership rates in the world. Why are they not high on this list? On the other hand, places like Mexico which is on the other end of the spectrum when it comes to gun laws and gun ownership. Why are they not at the bottom? Maybe the solution is to develop a different thinking about guns in this country like the Swiss.

How many Swiss gun owners take their guns with them everywhere they go? I doubt less restrictive gun laws are the primary reason for the lower crime rate.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Practically everyone in Switzerland has a gun, they have very few restrictions on buying guns and has one of the highest militia gun ownership rates in the world. Why are they not high on this list? On the other hand, places like Mexico which is on the other end of the spectrum when it comes to gun laws and gun ownership. Why are they not at the bottom? Maybe the solution is to develop a different thinking about guns in this country like the Swiss.

Actually the Swiss are relatively high compared to the other European countries.

[Uncle Ted]

How many Swiss gun owners take their guns with them everywhere they go? I doubt less restrictive gun laws are the primary reason for the lower crime rate.

I don't take my gun everywhere I go. However, if I know I am going to a bad part of town or where my life might be threaten I might take my gun. Not always but I have the option, which is good.

Now, I am guessing the average Swiss criminal knows that all his Swiss neighbors most likely have a gun. They may or may not have it when they go out. However, does the bad guy risk showing up to a public place any opening fire knowing that a high percentage of his fellow Swiss citizens might gun him down shortly after getting maybe his second or third round off? I would venture to say not. If he wanted to kill a lot Swiss people in a public place I would guess he would more likely use a bomb.

[TripletDaddy]

Where are you going where you know your life may be threatened?

[Colly Wolly]

I don't think they all are, I don't even think most of them are. I think it is foolish to think that none of them are. I saw someone say something to the effect that if he were in that theater he wouldn't have leg the smoke and the dark deter him, he would have "put some lead down range". Great, am I supposed to feel safer with this moron "protecting" me?

What about protecting yourself though? Don't let the idiots distract you. Focus on yourself and what you would do and what resources and experience you would want to have at your disposal in a similar situation.

[Colly Wolly]

Where are you going where you know your life may be threatened?

May be threatened? Everywhere.

[Colly Wolly]

Would be interesting to compare statistics on the frequency of collateral damage from concealed carry permit holders acting irresponsibly or foolishly relative to the number of legitimate self defense success stories. I have a feeling the ninnies won't like the outcome.

[TripletDaddy]

May be threatened? Everywhere.

Then what he saying doesn't make sense. He said he DOESN'T take it everywhere, might MIGHT take it if he is going somewhere where his life might be threatened. So that is kind of confusing.

[Colly Wolly]

Then what he saying doesn't make sense. He said he DOESN'T take it everywhere, might MIGHT take it if he is going somewhere where his life might be threatened. So that is kind of confusing.

Agree. He may feel like certain environments are inherently safer than others. Maybe large public gatherings are more risky in his eyes. I don't know. Everybody is different, and there certainly isn't any kind of science to predicting when or where some loony may try to kill people.

[SoonerCoug]

Agree. He may feel like certain environments are inherently safer than others. Maybe large public gatherings are more risky in his eyes. I don't know. Everybody is different, and there certainly isn't any kind of science to predicting when or where some loony may try to kill people.

I just think it's pretty clear that the world would be a safer place if more people had more weapons.

[Colly Wolly]

I just think it's pretty clear that the world would be a safer place if more people had more weapons.

That's your prerogative I guess. I figure lots of people already have them as it is now. I think I'll invent a machine where I push a button that makes all weapons disappear. Then I won't have to worry about being shot to shit at the movies.

[Uncle Ted]

Where are you going where you know your life may be threatened?

Utah.

[SoonerCoug]

That's your prerogative I guess. I figure lots of people already have them as it is now. I think I'll invent a machine where I push a button that makes all weapons disappear. Then I won't have to worry about being shot to shit at the movies.

The problem with outlawing guns is that the bad guys will still have guns, and the good guys won't have guns anymore.

[Colly Wolly]

The problem with outlawing guns is that the bad guys will still have guns, and the good guys won't have guns anymore.

You don't need guns. The police will protect you.

[Uncle Ted]

The problem with outlawing guns is that the bad guys will still have guns, and the good guys won't have guns anymore.

Yes, I read somewhere the bad guys have figured out a way around those "press the button to make all weapons disappear" machines.